[Faline]

[bobblob23]

good pic kelly, wish there was more though

[Pelle]

Nice pic!

Where/when is this from?

[Faline]

Sorry guys, there was no additional info

[Spiffyfable]

Very Very difficult as the ground is frozen

[gatagato]

From Yukon Archives Images Database

Caption: 100-Mile Landing Hootalinqua River Feb. 1922 [Claude Tidd and another man digging a hole (possibly a grave in a cemetery) at Hundred Mile Landing on the Hootalinqua (Teslin) River. What appear to be possible grave markers can be seen. Snow on ground.]
YA# 7536
Date: Feb 1922
Fonds/Collection: Claude and Mary Tidd fonds
Photographer: Claude Tidd
Format: 1 photograph : b&w print
Original Size: 7.5 x 12.5 cm
Last Modified: August 21, 2009
Subject Headings: Hundred Mile Landing - Cemetery
Tidd, Claude

http://www.tc.gov.yk.ca/digitization...imageId=68599#
http://www.tc.gov.yk.ca/digitization...lectionId=145#

[Sharon]

Great image

[Jere]

had to be a bitch digging holes in the winter

[Oswald2001]

Originally Posted by Jere ↗

had to be a bitch digging holes in the winter

Even picks will bounce off the frozen ground like it was concrete.

Until you get down below the frost line.

They probably built a fire on top of the ground where they were going to dig and let it smolder for a couple of days.

Then they could dig through thawed out ground.

[Chupachub]

Grave digging and robbing has been around for ever! Whenever I think about graves being robbed I always thing of the Valley of the Kings and just all the treasurers that were there but were stolen, and how much of it was left over once archeologist found it! :D